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...start product development. "It was a completely novel idea born out of the fact that I didn't want to raise venture capital and lose equity control of the company, nor did I want to have to pay back high-interest loans and executive salaries," Voetmann says. "Honestly, our aim was not to make money but to find a way to help others," says Hamilton...
...aim of the merger, slated for completion late next year, is simple. BA and Iberia - combined annual revenues: $22 billion - are chasing their rivals' tails. Germany's Lufthansa, Europe's second-largest airline, has picked up smaller carriers from Austria to Switzerland in recent months. Thanks to the 2004 merger of the French and Dutch airlines, Air France-KLM is even further out in front. Troubled Iberia and BA, which both announced ugly losses over the past week, reckon eliminating duplicate services from fleet maintenance to business class lounges will save the airlines $600 million a year. That'll mean...
...added that she felt the goal of the music of her day was often a political message, and modern music has a less meaningful aim...
...event was the start off a month-long campaign for climate change, in which affiliates of the Leadership Campaign—a group of student activists—aim to pressure Massachusetts politicians to adopt aggressive renewable energy legislation by camping-out in scattered tents on the Boston Common until the Copenhagen climate conference in December...
...three reform packages aim to create a systemic-risk council that can impose emergency measures and unleash extra powers throughout government in case of a future meltdown like the one that almost destroyed the global economy last fall. Dodd differs with the Administration in who should head the council: he wants the President to appoint someone, while the Administration thinks it should be an internal player like the Treasury Secretary...